Das Kitsch & Grand Hotel Schlling – Cityclub, Augsburg

Album release 'Dauerschleife'

Support: Grand Hotel Schilling (Vienna)

The boys from back then have grown up, they still smoke in the rain, wallow in world-weariness, but something has changed: the cold north wind blows madness into the city in which they live, and the gentle synths are mixed up by a hard-knocking drum kit that always takes the rhythm by surprise at the right moment. The vocals are boyishly melancholic, but they resonate with a maturity that tenderly transfigures the melancholy and laconically celebrates the pain - Martin Schenk's lyrics conjure up images in your head and the sun on your face. And why not? "Does it always have to be thunder and lightning?" chants the frontman, while Niklas Rehle's exalted bass plays capers. Then Simon Kerler laughs on the drums and kicks it up a notch. Kitsch pulls out all the stops as usual, but never just superficially, showing the big in the small, the whole in the broken. And the legs are dancing before you even realize it.